acquaintance with the internal politics of Tibet declares that substantial power belongs to the small group of leading Lamas, including the Abbots of the three great...

serious, about the Tibetan Treaty. It is stated, for example, that the British Government has agreed to exchange the demand for an indemnity for a lease of the Chumbi Valley for...

of battles contested with singular courage on both sides, and marked by a slaughter unparalleled since Napoleon retreated from Russia. It is impossible as yet to obtain an...

use the name affixed to it by Marshal Oyama—which lasted for nine days, reached a lull on Wednesday, and Friday's news shows that the two forces are facing each other almost...

statement, said to rest on good authority, but, we should say, obviously exaggerated, that the siege has cost the Japanese fifty thousand men. The Japanese, however, are every...

about Chinese Labour" written by the Daily Chronicle's Special Commissioner in the Transvaal appeared in Thursday's issue. The writer prefaces his article with four significant...

is pressing forward two other plans of Lord Curzon. One is a Mission to Kerman, in South-Eastern Persia. It is nominally commercial, and intended to promote the culture of...

felt in every domain, has been lecturing the artistic world of Berlin upon the just limits of originality. He does not like wild departures from the great traditions of art. It...

The names of their expert witnesses are generally concealed behind the letters of the alphabet, and Mr. Hewins, their chief official, has not yet seen fit to give his authority...

at which our heritage has been won, only to be bestowed on aliens, proclaims his firm belief in the immense possibilities of the country. " If ever there was a white man's...

readers the work of the Southampton Conference will have been accom- plished, and Mr. Balfour, according to the confident expecta- tion of many of his supporters, will have at...

the recent manoeuvres of the Army, and pronounces a very strong opinion upon the quality of the troops. " It may," he says, " be affirmed without hesitation that the Bulgarian...

during the past week. As was certain from the character of its members, the Commission is evidently going to probe the matter to the very bottom, and the whole truth will be...

accused man in England finds himself in such a position, the legal authorities do all they can to give him a fair chance of extri- cating himself. Instead, every avenue was...

were in ignorance till yesterday—a monthly which describes itself as "in the interests of the licensed trade," has in its October issue a spirited full-page cartoon which is...

lately joined the Unionist Free-Trade Club are the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Abingdon, the Earl of Lytton, Earl Morley, Earl Cowper, Viscount Peel, Viscount Goschen, Lord...

a picture of a diminutive country beerhouse, with the following words underneath :—" The above photograph of the Prince of Wales' beerhouse at Yalding is repro- duced by...

meeting of the Church of England Sunday-School Institute and delivered a remarkable address on the Bible. The Book which they held in their hands as teachers had not changed,...

death of Mr. Charles Furse, the well-known portrait painter, which took place at Frimley, in Surrey, on Monday. Mr. Purse was still a comparatively young man, his work had won...

Consols (2; per cent.) were on Friday 88g.

MR. BALFOUR AND MR. CHAMBERLAIN. T HE country is still debating whether Mr. Balfour and Mr. Chamberlain are now at odds over the Fiscal question, or whether they are still in...

by the nine days' battle on the Sha-ho is the immensity of the strength the combatants have displayed. As we are Europeans, take the Russian example first. In this country we...

Q IR FREDERICK POLLOCK contributes to Monday's L. - / Times a most interesting and important Memorandum dealing with the question of Imperial organisation. This Memorandum, he...

the policy of the German Emperor in the Far East. The Pekin correspondent of the Times declares that it is William II., and not Nicholas II., who is resisting the ratification...

very grave. On Friday week the Conference between the Free Church and the United Free Church representa- tives, from which so much had been hoped, was concluded without arriving...

Life" (London : John Murray, 5s. net) has, as we stated in our issue of October 1st, reached a fifth edition in less than a year. That this should be the case adds one more item...

is " sad stuff " is one that clever young gentlemen in every generation are in danger of making. It comes in great measure from taking their Shakespeare as read in the press of...

famous for flower-growing, even when there were ten thousand acres within four miles of Charing Cross devoted to horti- culture. London now gets its flowers mainly from Scilly...

SIE,—You were good enough during last Session to publish two letters from me, in which I argued that the true course for Unionist Free-traders was to support the present...

(Spectator of October 1st) in respect of a recent speech of mine on this subject which has been noticed in your columns. While I should regret that anything I have said should...

the report of the Chronicle Commissioner on Chinese labour for the Rand, to which you called attention last week, is very misleading, though not, I feel sure, intentionally so....

me to correct a slight injustice done me by Sir Horace Plunkett in your last issue P He speaks of your accepting, on my "authority," certain then uncontradicted statements of...

Silt,—In discussing the question of white men on the Trans- vaal mines, it is necessary to distinguish three classes :— (1) The office staff—accountants, bookkeepers,...

returned from South Africa. He was lamenting the fact that the ship he came home in was full of working men, who, as he said, "ought to be going the other way " ; but, he...

book-moves " of Kuropatkin and Oyama bear to those made by Napoleon I. and the Archduke Charles at Eckmiihl. I do not refer to the manoeuvres which preceded that battle...

charac- terise as "the merest piece of clap-trap" the argument that white men should not work with coloured at unskilled labour. This, and not dividends, appears to me the most...

The Spirit of the Anglican Church" in last week's Spectator recalls to my mind some Bampton Lectures preached half-a-century ago by one pre- maturely, as it seemed, taken from...

on " The New Power " in your issue of September 9th you seem to infer by your words, the "contemptuous exclusion" of the Japanese by the United States, Australia, and British...

have read with pleasure and agreement your article on this subject in last week's Spectator, for, with all due respect to the Head-Masters of Haileybury and Repton, it is not...

first taken in miniature rifle shooting, I am tempted to send you the following striking instance of its value. Bugler W. Smith, aged fifteen, of the Watton Detach- ment,...

cottages for which we are agitating should all, or almost all, have three bedrooms. May I add a few words to explain why I hope they will not ? The additional bedroom, if...

and perhaps you may think well to record it. A lad of thirteen was charged at the Stratford Police Court about four weeks ago with begging. According to the Press report, "he, a...

SIR,—Will the Spectator receive a protest from one of its readers against its abuse of the word " literally " ? On p. 557 we read that a certain incident as related by Mr....

report- ing and commenting on the address delivered by Sir Thomas Brooke-Hitching before the United Wards Club, you ask three questions in the interest of the public, to which,...

The Spirit answered :- thee, Oft must a man defend War, and the men who toil In war, its fruit and spoil ?" Troubleth the folk and land ; I answered wise indeed :- " Of war I...

15th contains a friendly notice of my wife's book entitled " Diderot's Thoughts on Art and Style." It seems ungrateful to cavil at such a notice ; but I must protest on her...

his monumental work. For whatever our views of the method employed and of many of the particular judgments, we must readily admit the courage which undertook such a task and the...

man's excuse, the brutish man's weapon ; it is a good genius, a physician of the mind and body, a spirit that will make of poor men's wishes wings to carry them out of...

of Admetus. The quality of the experiment may be judged by two examples. In the first the chorus tells of Apollo's magical influence on the beasts of the field :— " I on...

at a time when much talk of the Reformation is in the air, and the need for the exact facts of history is singularly apparent. It is not a matter for apology that the part...

—The second book of an author of promise must always be subjected to a more severe criticism than its predecessor. In addition to the pleasure which critics feel in having...

in Mr. Laurence Housman's novel, so much in style, portraiture, and sentiment to command the admiration of the professional novel-reader, that it is extremely difficult to...

the date of this story is also the seventeenth century, its atmosphere of sea breezes and Puritanism is very different from that of the lurid tale of witchcraft which we have...

—Mr. Greenslet, possibly helped by the "spatial distance" which, he thinks, "may afford something of the perspective usually given only by remoteness in time," has supplied us...

Style in Furniture. By R. Davis Benn. (Longman and Co. 21s. net.)—Mr. Benn goes back to the seventeenth century, taking also a glance at Elizabethan work dating from a still...

(Methuen and Co. 6s.)—The joint-authors of this book have again followed their peculiar prescription for novel-writing. They take a motor- car, an illustrated guide-book, and...

of Manufacturing Illustrated Magazines. By Prometheus D'Ordel, Esq., Gent. Edited by Mark Sykes and Edward Sandars. (Bickers and Sons. ls.)—This admirable skit on the cheap...

Lucas. (Sidney Appleton. 3s. 6d.)—Readers of the Spectator have made acquaintance with Mr. St. John Lucas as a poet. Of his skill in threading the paths of fantastic comedy...

as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Burns Country. By Charles S. Dougall, M.A. (A. and C. Black. 6s.)—This is the third of a series in which "The Scott...

may quote from the preface a sentence which has much significance, as showing the point of view from which Mr. Dillon regards his subject. " It has been the aim of the writer to...

—" The suggestion is," writes Mr. Verney in this paper, read at the Exhibition of the Royal Botanic Society, " not to make every farm labourer a skilled workman, but to give...

of Heinrich Heine (W. Heinemann, 5s. net each). The publisher explains that the prose works, extending to eight volumes, were translated by Mr. C. G. Leland; that this gentleman...

P. Putnam's Sons. 20s. net.)—This may be described as a " jubilee" publication. The beginning of the Republican party as formally constituted is assigned to the year 1854,...

Watson, and Viney, 3s. 6d. per vol.), appears in a fifth edition. The first volume is devoted to Southern Europe ; the second to North Africa and the Mediterranean islands. The...

2s. 6d. net.)—The preface, by Mr. L. L. Price, with its wide and dispassionate view of the whole subject, must on no account be neglected by the reader who undertakes the...

(Elliott and Fry). With Biographical Notes and a Preface by F. G. Afialo. (J. Lane. 21s. net.)—The frontispiece of this volume is a portrait of the King His Majesty's...